Satya Nadella made the world love Microsoft again, but AI is making people hate this company again. Or at least make fun of it, because in recent weeks an alternative name for the company began to go viral. It was no longer Microsoft, but Microslop (in reference to the “AI Slop”, “AI-generated slop”). In Redmond they have not taken the mockery well at all.
what has happened. In recent months, Microsoft’s obsession with AI has led it to flood their operating systemssoftware and services with AI functions and his “copilots”. The problem is that many of these functions have not been correctly launched —Recall (Memories) is the best example of thisthe other is the notepad—, and that has generated quite general rejection on networks. This rejection has led to an ironic nickname for the company, which for many had become “Microslop” from Microsoft, in reference to the “AI slop”.
Source: WindowsLatest
“Microslop”, a banned word on Discord. The name has spread through social networks, but it has also reached the Discord server they had to talk about Microsoft Copilot. Although the company cannot stop the spread of that term on other platforms, it could control it on its Discord server. That’s just what he did: any message that contained that term was automatically blockedand users saw a notice indicating that the message included a phrase considered inappropriate according to the server’s usage rules.
The game of cat and mouse. Users of said server soon realized the problem, so they ended up resorting to variations of that term, for example changing the capital letter “O” to a zero (“0”). That term was not initially detected by Discord’s filter, but the channel’s moderators ended up expelling and canceling accounts that had used the term.
Things get worse. The escalation of tension on the server continued, and some parts of the server were restricted. For example, it was not possible to access message history, and many users found their permissions to post new messages were revoked.
And Microsoft has closed the Discord server. The whole situation has had a surprising ending: Microsoft has contacted with Windows Latestwho told what was happening, and indicated to them that they have decided to directly close the Discord channel that they had created to talk about Microsfot Copilot. According to those responsible,
“The Copilot Discord channel has recently been targeted by spammers attempting to disrupt and saturate the space with harmful content unrelated to Copilot. Initially, this spam consisted of blocks of text, so we added temporary filters for certain terms in order to curb this activity. We have since decided to temporarily block the server while we work to implement stronger security measures to protect users from this harmful spam and ensure the server remains a safe and usable space for the community.”
bad idea. The final decision does not help Microsoft’s perception of its users to improve, and although this type of mockery and attacks may certainly not sit well, the company has acted in a counterproductive way: instead of tackling the problem they have magnified it, and it remains to be seen if they reopen that server – whose initial activity was promising – and, above all, how they face the next steps of that ambition to fill all their AI products.
Less AI please. Microsoft officials themselves know that the situation is somewhat tense. Pavan Davuluri, head of Windows, admitted that there were “pain points” regarding those AI features that the company has included in the operating system. In fact, the company theoretically intends to work more on system stability and performance and less on adding features that users not only don’t want, but they end up eliminating.
In Xataka | People are so fed up with AI in Windows that there are already applications to clean up any trace of it
GIPHY App Key not set. Please check settings